μῦθοι Mythoi
Motif

Beginning formulas.

Miscellaneous groups of motifs. · Formulas. · Formulistic framework for tales. · view the constellation · filed as Z10.1

In our texts — keyword-matched, unreviewed
Filed across the traditions
  • Korean Zong in-Sob 14 No. 7.
  • general *Hdwb. d. Märchens II 161
  • general *BP IV 14ff.
Within the index

Filed under Formulistic framework for tales.

Filed beside it
End formulas Transition formulas Endless tales. Hundreds of sheep to be carried over stream one at a time, etc. The wording of the tale so arranged as to continue indefinitely Unfinished tales. Just as the interest is aroused the narrator quits. "If the bowl had been stronger my tale had been longer." Catch tales. The manner of the telling forces the hearer to ask a particular question, to which the teller returns a ridiculous answer "Runs." Conventional passages of set form within a tale, usually recited in a different voice from the rest Tale avoiding all pronouns Tales ending with a question Rounds. Stories which begin over and over again and repeat Formulistic conversations Formulistic frameworks – miscellaneous

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